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Vultr CPU Optimized AMD 2 vCPU / 4 GB

New Jersey, US

Benchmark complete
Finished Oct 17, 2026
Geekbench 7 single-core
1,733
Faster than 89% of 2 vCPU plans
Geekbench 7 multi-core
3,342
Faster than 91% of 2 vCPU plans
Disk 4K IOPS
165,155
fio random read and write, 50/50
Monthly price at test time
$40.00
84 multi-core points per dollar
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Server

  • Provider
    Vultr
  • Plan
    CPU Optimized AMD 2 vCPU / 4 GB
  • Location
    New Jersey, US
  • vCPU
    2
  • RAM
    4 GB
  • Storage
    50 GB NVMe
  • Network
    Unknown
  • OS image
    2284
  • Trigger
    Scheduled
  • Queued at
    Oct 17, 2026, 13:00:00 UTC
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CPU

Version Single-core Multi-core
Geekbench 7 1,733 3,342 Geekbench Browser

Scores from different Geekbench versions aren't comparable with each other. Charts only use Geekbench 7.

Geekbench 7 workloads

Workload Single-core Multi-core
File Compression
1,782
28th of 241
3,109
57th of 166
Navigation
1,809
20th of 241
Single-core only
HTML5 Browser
1,774
33rd of 241
Single-core only
PDF Viewer
1,762
35th of 241
Single-core only
Photo Library
1,601
37th of 241
3,191
64th of 166
Clang
1,641
27th of 241
3,207
67th of 166
Text Processing
1,569
35th of 241
3,078
65th of 166
Asset Compression
1,770
34th of 241
3,537
67th of 166
HDR
1,814
32nd of 241
3,510
41st of 166
Photo Editor
1,839
39th of 241
3,850
49th of 166
Ray Tracer
1,651
32nd of 241
3,322
72nd of 166
Structure from Motion
1,767
35th of 241
Single-core only
Game Physics
1,724
27th of 241
Single-core only
Video Encoder
1,740
32nd of 241
Single-core only
Audio Encoder
1,729
39th of 241
Single-core only
Video Player
1,781
41st of 241
Single-core only

Rank among the 241 runs with Geekbench 7 workload scores. Bars are relative to the best run. Geekbench doesn't run every workload multi-core, so some rows only have a single-core score.

Memory, TLS and scheduler

Memory bandwidth (STREAM)

Test Result Runs Spread
Copy higher is better 64.2 GB/s 3 1.26%
Scale higher is better 76.1 GB/s 3 2.72%
Add higher is better 71.3 GB/s 3 0.976%
Triad higher is better 71.3 GB/s 3 2.17%

Average of 3 runs. Spread is the standard deviation as a share of the average.

TLS and crypto (OpenSSL)

Test Result Runs Spread
RSA 4096 signs higher is better 352/s 3 0.431%
RSA 4096 verifies higher is better 22,789/s 3 1.56%
SHA-256 higher is better 2.01 GB/s 3 0.336%
AES-256-GCM higher is better 8.97 GB/s 3 0.445%
ChaCha20-Poly1305 higher is better 4.75 GB/s 3 0.246%

Average of 3 runs. Spread is the standard deviation as a share of the average.

Scheduler latency (schbench)

Test Result Runs Spread
Request latency, median lower is better 4.02 ms 3 0.304%
Requests per second, 90th percentile higher is better 469/s 3 0.977%
Request latency, 99.9th percentile lower is better 8.24 ms 3 2.48%
Requests per second, average higher is better 460/s 3 0.661%

Average of 3 runs. Spread is the standard deviation as a share of the average.

Disk

Block size Read Write Total
4K 322.1 MB/s (82,469 IOPS) 323 MB/s (82,686 IOPS) 645.1 MB/s (165,155 IOPS)
64K 1.68 GB/s (27,579 IOPS) 1.69 GB/s (27,724 IOPS) 3.38 GB/s (55,303 IOPS)
512K 2.01 GB/s (4,113 IOPS) 2.12 GB/s (4,331 IOPS) 4.12 GB/s (8,444 IOPS)
1M 2.08 GB/s (2,131 IOPS) 2.22 GB/s (2,273 IOPS) 4.3 GB/s (4,404 IOPS)

fio random read and write, 50/50, run by YABS against the boot disk.

Network

IPv4 transfer speed

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Target Protocol Send Receive
Clouvider, London, UK (10G) IPv4 2.61 Gbps 3.19 Gbps
Eranium, Amsterdam, NL (100G) IPv4 12.4 Gbps 11.1 Gbps
Leaseweb, Singapore, SG (10G) IPv4 3.23 Gbps busy
Clouvider, Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) IPv4 3.35 Gbps 3.24 Gbps
Leaseweb, NYC, NY, US (10G) IPv4 9.4 Gbps 9.41 Gbps

Public iperf3 servers vary in capacity and availability. Compare a target only with itself over time.

Datastores

PostgreSQL

fsync speed (pg_test_fsync)

Method Operations per second Time per operation
One 8 kB write
open_datasync 10,772 0.093 ms
fdatasync 10,183 0.098 ms
fsync 7,981 0.125 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 8,237 0.121 ms
Two 8 kB writes
open_datasync 5,318 0.188 ms
fdatasync 9,454 0.106 ms
fsync 7,758 0.129 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 4,319 0.232 ms
open_sync at different write sizes
1 * 16kB open_sync write 8,092 0.124 ms
2 * 8kB open_sync writes 4,274 0.234 ms
4 * 4kB open_sync writes 2,216 0.451 ms
8 * 2kB open_sync writes 905 1.11 ms
16 * 1kB open_sync writes 452 2.21 ms
fsync on a non-write descriptor
write, fsync, close 7,527 0.133 ms
write, close, fsync 7,306 0.137 ms
Non-synced 8 kB writes
write 647,602 0.002 ms

pg_test_fsync against the Docker volume Postgres keeps its data on. fdatasync is Linux's default wal_sync_method.

pgbench at scale 10

Workload Clients Transactions/s Median p95 p99 p99.9 Failed
Read/write (TPC-B like) 1 2,581 0.378 ms 0.446 ms 0.526 ms 1.26 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 5,612 1.34 ms 2.25 ms 2.99 ms 4.35 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 5,365 4.72 ms 13.7 ms 22.7 ms 38.1 ms 0
Read only 1 28,518 0.033 ms 0.047 ms 0.058 ms 0.087 ms 0
Read only 8 66,335 0.104 ms 0.175 ms 0.22 ms 0.461 ms 0
Read only 32 63,845 0.39 ms 0.683 ms 0.975 ms 1.57 ms 0

Scale 10 (1,000,000 accounts), loaded in 1.05 s. 60 s per run, prepared statements. Latency comes from sampled transaction logs, and p99.9 is left out when fewer than 1,000 were sampled.

pgbench at scale 100

Workload Clients Transactions/s Median p95 p99 p99.9 Failed
Read/write (TPC-B like) 1 2,183 0.428 ms 0.619 ms 0.757 ms 2.09 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 5,274 1.47 ms 2.15 ms 2.95 ms 6.04 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 6,220 4.9 ms 7.7 ms 9.83 ms 14.8 ms 0
Read only 1 23,066 0.039 ms 0.058 ms 0.084 ms 0.427 ms 0
Read only 8 52,096 0.136 ms 0.229 ms 0.288 ms 0.79 ms 0
Read only 32 51,288 0.537 ms 0.814 ms 1.13 ms 2.37 ms 0

Scale 100 (10,000,000 accounts), loaded in 10.5 s. 60 s per run, prepared statements. Latency comes from sampled transaction logs, and p99.9 is left out when fewer than 1,000 were sampled.

MySQL

sysbench OLTP

Workload Threads Transactions/s Queries/s Median p95 p99 Errors
Read/write 1 493 9,855 1.93 ms 2.62 ms 4.25 ms 0
Read/write 8 1,021 20,414 7.84 ms 11.7 ms 15 ms 0
Read/write 32 1,064 21,280 29.2 ms 48.3 ms 62.2 ms 0
Read only 1 1,115 17,847 0.872 ms 1.1 ms 1.32 ms 0
Read only 8 2,296 36,735 3.25 ms 5.09 ms 5.77 ms 0
Read only 32 2,107 33,710 14.7 ms 20 ms 22.3 ms 0

10 tables of 100,000 rows, loaded in 6.3 s. 60 s per run, one connection per thread.

Redis

memtier

Mix Operations/s Hits/s Median p99 p99.9
1:10 set:get 65,370 59,427 0.655 ms 2.94 ms 4.51 ms
1:1 set:get 65,404 32,702 0.671 ms 2.96 ms 4.51 ms

1,000,000 keys of 32 bytes. 64 connections over 2 threads, 60 s per ratio.

Web frameworks

Framework Fortunes req/s Single query req/s JSON req/s Fortunes p99 at 256 connections
Next.js nextjs 883 2,873 4,190 441 ms
Express express-postgresjs 8,566 12,410 47,352 63.7 ms
Fastify fastify-postgres 8,353 12,992 51,035 54.8 ms
NestJS nestjs 5,942 6,729 24,926 72.9 ms
Nuxt nuxt 7,679 12,573 43,977 64.1 ms
FastAPI fastapi 4,361 5,580 28,222 256 ms
Django django-postgresql 2,250 2,503 6,179 268 ms
Rails rails 3,491 4,930 18,873 105 ms
Laravel laravel 971 1,020 1,929 276 ms
Symfony symfony 1,175 1,300 3,693 230 ms

Peak requests per second across the 64 and 256 connection levels, measured with wrk. Each test has to pass the TechEmpower response checks first, or it's marked invalid.

Web apps

WooCommerce

Page mix

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
8 virtual users
Home page 3.01 529 ms 605 ms 620 ms 0%
Shop page 3.01 720 ms 833 ms 875 ms 0%
Category page 3.01 451 ms 737 ms 784 ms 0%
Product page 3.01 494 ms 580 ms 629 ms 0%
Product search 3.01 435 ms 510 ms 545 ms 0%
32 virtual users
Home page 3.05 1.93 s 2.16 s 2.2 s 0%
Shop page 3.05 2.49 s 2.86 s 2.94 s 0%
Category page 3.05 2.25 s 2.66 s 2.79 s 0%
Product page 3.05 1.95 s 2.11 s 2.18 s 0%
Product search 3.05 1.81 s 1.99 s 2.05 s 0%

Cart and checkout

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
8 virtual users
Add to cart 5.8 567 ms 666 ms 695 ms 0%
Cart 5.8 456 ms 546 ms 564 ms 0%
Checkout 5.8 357 ms 426 ms 438 ms 0%
32 virtual users
Add to cart 5.87 1.87 s 2.22 s 2.32 s 0%
Cart 5.87 1.94 s 2.13 s 2.22 s 0%
Checkout 5.87 1.55 s 1.79 s 1.88 s 0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 61 to 65 s per level. The error rate counts responses that weren't a 200.

Discourse

Signed in

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Topic page 2.94 150 ms 183 ms 353 ms 0%
Topic JSON 1.48 74.8 ms 87.1 ms 92.4 ms 0%
Home page 1.48 133 ms 302 ms 370 ms 0%
Categories page 0.73 156 ms 287 ms 345 ms 0%
User activity page 0.73 93 ms 176 ms 215 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Topic page 5.45 330 ms 404 ms 798 ms 0%
Topic JSON 2.71 175 ms 220 ms 368 ms 0%
Home page 2.73 288 ms 425 ms 656 ms 0%
Categories page 1.37 334 ms 420 ms 910 ms 0%
User activity page 1.36 204 ms 266 ms 614 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Topic page 5.29 1.2 s 1.5 s 1.74 s 0%
Topic JSON 2.66 1.05 s 1.37 s 1.51 s 0%
Home page 2.64 1.18 s 1.57 s 1.73 s 0%
Categories page 1.32 1.22 s 1.67 s 1.8 s 0%
User activity page 1.32 1.08 s 1.35 s 1.52 s 0%

Anonymous

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
16 virtual users
Topic page 112 41.1 ms 96.2 ms 115 ms 0%
Topic JSON 55.8 38.3 ms 95.2 ms 120 ms 0%
Home page 55.8 40.9 ms 96.1 ms 125 ms 0%
Categories page 27.9 38.6 ms 92.5 ms 110 ms 0%
User activity page 27.9 130 ms 194 ms 284 ms 0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 60 to 61 s per level, after a 21 s warmup. The error rate counts responses that weren't a 200. Discourse ran with 4 app workers and 1024 MB of Postgres shared buffers, what its installer picks for a 4 GB box. It had swap the way its installer sets a box up. The container peaked at 2,444 MB.

Ghost

Readers

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Home page 12.1 22.8 ms 26.6 ms 37.9 ms 0%
Post page 30.1 12.7 ms 15.7 ms 21.3 ms 0%
Tag page 6.03 15.7 ms 19 ms 22.7 ms 0%
Author page 6.01 15.7 ms 18.7 ms 23.9 ms 0%
RSS feed 6.01 20 ms 23.3 ms 31.5 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Home page 15.3 67.8 ms 86.3 ms 95.2 ms 0%
Post page 38.2 48.8 ms 67.3 ms 82.6 ms 0%
Tag page 7.65 42 ms 60.2 ms 81.1 ms 0%
Author page 7.64 42.3 ms 62.8 ms 75.7 ms 0%
RSS feed 7.64 47.5 ms 62.9 ms 73 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Home page 14.4 282 ms 348 ms 389 ms 0%
Post page 36 230 ms 300 ms 339 ms 0%
Tag page 7.21 152 ms 213 ms 256 ms 0%
Author page 7.25 153 ms 206 ms 233 ms 0%
RSS feed 7.18 159 ms 216 ms 264 ms 0%

Staff in Ghost Admin

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Post list 6.65 22.7 ms 27.4 ms 31.4 ms 0%
Post editor 20 9.07 ms 11.8 ms 20.1 ms 0%
Saving a draft 20 21.9 ms 26.7 ms 39.9 ms 0%
Member list 6.66 25.5 ms 30.9 ms 36.4 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Post list 8.2 29.8 ms 35.9 ms 54.7 ms 0%
Post editor 24.7 16 ms 20.8 ms 23.9 ms 0%
Saving a draft 24.7 123 ms 148 ms 189 ms 0%
Member list 8.23 35.6 ms 40.8 ms 44.7 ms 0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 60 s per level, after a 20 s warmup. The error rate counts responses that weren't a 200. Ghost ran the way its ghost-docker setup runs it: one Node process, and MySQL with its stock 128 MB buffer pool. Memory peaked with Ghost at 368 MB and MySQL at 621 MB.

Wagtail

Visitors

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Home page 2.33 56.9 ms 61.6 ms 66.1 ms 0%
Blog index 2.33 193 ms 206 ms 228 ms 0%
Blog post 6.96 18.6 ms 27.7 ms 30.3 ms 0%
Bread page 6.97 20.3 ms 22.3 ms 23.9 ms 0%
Location page 2.33 19.5 ms 21.9 ms 22.5 ms 0%
Site search 2.31 31.3 ms 53.1 ms 55.2 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Home page 3.75 157 ms 217 ms 254 ms 0%
Blog index 3.79 503 ms 699 ms 806 ms 0%
Blog post 11.3 43.9 ms 74.6 ms 98 ms 0%
Bread page 11.3 48.1 ms 70.7 ms 80.2 ms 0%
Location page 3.79 45.9 ms 65.3 ms 74.4 ms 0%
Site search 3.75 66.9 ms 137 ms 153 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Home page 4.16 446 ms 578 ms 628 ms 0%
Blog index 4.26 1.08 s 1.24 s 1.28 s 0%
Blog post 12.6 260 ms 370 ms 437 ms 0%
Bread page 12.6 269 ms 387 ms 457 ms 0%
Location page 4.21 266 ms 396 ms 431 ms 0%
Site search 4.18 309 ms 452 ms 505 ms 0%

Editors in the Wagtail admin

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Admin dashboard 0.927 60.3 ms 70.2 ms 123 ms 0%
Page explorer 1.87 254 ms 293 ms 398 ms 0%
Page editor 2.8 121 ms 140 ms 230 ms 0%
Image library 0.927 47.3 ms 55 ms 338 ms 0%
Admin page search 0.927 27.5 ms 55.6 ms 60.6 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Admin dashboard 1.55 144 ms 383 ms 462 ms 0%
Page explorer 3.13 637 ms 911 ms 961 ms 0%
Page editor 4.72 293 ms 539 ms 636 ms 0%
Image library 1.57 157 ms 297 ms 346 ms 0%
Admin page search 1.55 64.3 ms 185 ms 261 ms 0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 60 to 61 s per level, after a 20 s warmup. The error rate counts responses that weren't a 200. Wagtail ran the way bakerydemo ships it: uWSGI with 2 workers of 4 threads each, whatever the box, and Postgres and Redis on stock settings. Memory peaked with Wagtail at 303 MB, Postgres at 163 MB, and Redis at 26 MB.

Advertised vs. measured

Advertised Measured
vCPU 2 2
CPU Dedicated vCPU 0% of busy CPU time stolen
RAM 4 GB 3.8 GiB
Storage 50 GB NVMe 46.8 GiB
Architecture x86_64 x86_64
Virtualization KVM MICROSOFT

Guests usually report slightly less RAM and disk than advertised because of kernel reservations and filesystem overhead.

Detected hardware

CPU model
AMD EPYC-Milan Processor
CPU cores
2
CPU frequency
3250 MHz
AES-NI
Yes
VM-x/AMD-V
No
RAM reported
3.8 GiB
Swap reported
4.8 GiB
Disk reported
46.8 GiB
Virtualization reported
MICROSOFT
CPU steal
0% of busy CPU time stolen
Distro
Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS
Kernel
6.8.0-146-generic
Architecture
x86_64
IPv4 reachable
Yes
IPv6 reachable
Yes

Advertised at test time

Plan
CPU Optimized AMD 2 vCPU / 4 GB
Product line
Optimized Cloud CPU
Location
New Jersey, US
vCPU
2 dedicated vCPU
Architecture
x86_64
RAM
4 GB
Storage
50 GB NVMe
Virtualization
KVM
Network
Unknown
Transfer
5.12 TB
Port 25
On request
Monthly price at test time
$40.00
Hourly price at test time
$0.055
YABS version
v2026-09-20
Ran at
Oct 17, 2026, 13:01:24 UTC
Parser version
5

Run timeline

Queued
Oct 17, 2026, 13:00:00 UTC
Server created
Oct 17, 2026, 13:00:58 UTC
First update from the server
Oct 17, 2026, 13:00:58 UTC
Completed
Oct 17, 2026, 14:32:43 UTC
Server deleted
Oct 17, 2026, 14:32:43 UTC
Cost of this run
$0.085
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